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after months of dealing with a fussy sleeper(only sleeps in car seat if you bounce it on your knee) i read the "sleep sence" book.

i found everything in it to be so true and make so much sence. pretty much everything we do to get our babies to sleep is detramental to them learning to do it themselves. it says its totally ok to do at 4 months of age, i just wanted to know if any body has tried and had any success?

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I don't know where you heard this 6 month rule. As far as I know the only thing I heard about was that you can't spoil your little ones/ your little ones can't manipulate you until they are 3 months old. Nevertheless, I think you can pretty much start sleep training from day 1. I've read the baby whisperer and she talks a lot about the right sleep associations (crib, swaddling, soother, dark and quite room: good; feeding, rocking, bouncer, car seat: bad). So basically from day 1 you want to make sure that baby doesn't learn to associate the bad things with sleep which means you feed your baby after it wakes up and (during the day) let it stay up afterwards. When he shows sign of fatigue (usually fussyness) you swaddle and put baby to bed right away (baby should still be somewhat awake). This way, baby learns to fall asleep by himself. I think the earlier you start with this the easier it is to implement. So far, knock on wood, my two months old is really good with falling asleep this way during the day. When he wakes up at night I try not to feed him right away but rather try to give him the soother, and shush to try and extend his sleep before the next feed. It's not perfect and he doesn't sleep through the night but he tends to give me about 4 to 5 hour stretches which is pretty good.
Good luck with your efforts and perhaps try to borrow the sleep whisperer from the library. I think there is quite a lot about her method online as well (it's called the EASY method).

so we tried it last night and ta da! he slept in his crib for the 1st time(without having to sneak him in while he was already sleeping) he cried for an hour and only got up ONCE to eat yay!!!! 11 hours total sleep

napping today hasnt been so lucky tho, guess we just have to stick with it:)

@ babyjmom, i had a friend email it to me i can probably just just forward it to you if youd like...just leave your email

Is Sleep Sense the one you get the free assessment then they send you a ton of emails after that trying to get you to buy it for $45 on-line? I was interested as well but $45 seemed like a lot if it didn't work. We already have to spend so much on other baby paraphenalia that I didn't feel like taking the chance.
Curious if anyone has tried it though.

I had a really hard time getting my daughter to sleep on her own. I tried reading the Baby Whisperer and took some aspects from it when she was first born...the E.A.S.Y method. I was unable to get her to the S part! Then I was given the book Healthy Sleep Habits Happy Child by Marc Weissenbuth. I has honestly changed the way my daughter sleeps. She will now go down for naps without crying and sleeps for longer periods at night. I don't agree with everything the book says but try to incorporate what works for my family and what I know will work for my daughter. You can look his techniques online but I definitely encourage you to purchase the book as I read it at least once a week just to keep familiarizing myself and encouraging myself.

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